This is both a strange thing, but a good thing. Now we can say a Sony owned IP title now has Achievements for Xbox/PC Gamepass. Unfortunately I’m assuming from publishing rights Death Stranding won’t end up Xbox Consoles.
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This is an interesting and noble position that Sony have taken in my opinion. If you’re not aware of “paid platinum” games, it usually means cheap games (costing a couple of pounds/euros/dollars to buy), that have been created for the sole purpose of allowing players to get a platinum with the minimum of effort to boost their completion ratios.
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Oh R*, you so silly
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Big oof.
https://www.thegamer.com/saints-row-review-round-up/
Saints Row? More like Saints RAW!
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That’s a shame. I was thinking of maybe getting that at some point, I don’t mind the occasional big dumb sandbox game.
Probably my own bias but it does feel like the sandbox genre has been very lacklustre lately in terms of titles, with the occasional standout. Doesn’t help that it feels like Ubisoft has been saturating the market with their often half baked titles for the last few years.
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There really hasn’t been any innovation in years, all sandbox games following the Ubisoft formula which has been stale since AC3 / FC3.
I wrote the first part before finishing reading your sentence, yeah, we all think the same about Ubi games 
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Yeah, this doesn’t look good.
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this is pretty sweet:
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Ugh, yet another game that will only be bearable after patches. It’s a shame, and another reason why I’m glad I don’t pre-order anymore.
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Oh my god I am going to need a PS5 ASAP
Helldivers is still a really enjoyable isometric shooter game, I’ve been hoping for a sequel that can add and iterate on its existing systems and environments.
Hopefully this supposed sequel that definitely isn’t real (wink,wink) can do that.
Whatever it is, Arrowhead Studios have something in the works and they’re being pretty guarded about it, according to this goofy video
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Tintin game in development!
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what an awesome bd to adapt into a videogame! i hope it turns out well
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So I’m gonna give my two cents since I’ve been playing the game early, I do not enjoy this game.
The gameplay loop and overall narrative progression is the worst in the series and is closer to Mafia 3, but unlike Mafia 3 you have to complete sets of a individual side activities to continue forward. While someone can argue that this has always been the case in the series due to the Respect System of Saints Row 1 and 2 where the game encouraged the player to go play the side content to progress storylines unlike those games the reboot is Soulless and at times very devoid of anything that makes it stand out in this series where we had A narrative revolving around Aliens and Jane Austen as a narrator.
Santo Ileso manages to be a devolution of Saints Row The Third and 4’s Steelport which was also a devolution of what is arguably one of the best sandbox environments to come out of the 2000’s that being Stillwater from Saints Row 2. For a city that is suppose to be emphasized in some areas for its Spanish and Western identities you drive around lifeless street with no character whatsoever.
Graphically this game isn’t really great, and it’s doesn’t particularly help with the lighting system as well where the game looks best during sunrises and sunsets, but looks terrible at night. NPC Character models look off and it doesn’t particularly help that the the Crews pet Cat is low detailed as well.
COOP on the Xbox Series X is very much unplayable where it will crash after cutscenes almost everytime. While the game is very much beatable from beginning to end on Singleplayer outside of the copious progression issues you can encounter it gets very jarring after awhile.
Volition desperately needed a win and I feel the Saints Row Reboot wasn’t what they were looking for. Their stance of essentially moving on from the past ultimately wasn’t the right call where people wanted a Gritty Narrative with a living open world like Saints Row 2, but with the quirk that came from The Third. There can be a balance between the two, but it just missed the mark.
That being said if you’re looking for a narrative about a group of millennials doing crime Watch Dogs 2 is a pretty good alternative to this.
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Watchdogs 2 is actually really good, as someone who recently finished playing through it I can safely say it won’t hurt to buy the Gold Edition on sale I know PS Store usually gives it heavy discounts during their marque event sales.
It is really sad because it looks like the Reboot actually cribs Vice City’s old mechanic of buying a front property then doing missions to unlock its full potential. Most criminal games don’t have that sort of structure and it seemed like the more free-flow Saint’s Row would have been perfect for it.
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Shame that nowadays game devs / publishers would rather reboot franchises and gamble away years of hard work building a fan-base by releasing great games than just taking a risk of coming up with new IPs.
Ever since the trailer reveal SR fans were very vocal about the reboot yet the developers said that they “stand their ground” about the decision to reboot the series. A kick in the balls to your loyal fans that bought your games throughout the years / releases is never a good idea.
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I can’t see it. Nothing a fan would have suggested could have possibly saved this game from the most well-meaning “It looks somewhat generic” to the stupidest “Too woke, this is cringe.” would have saved the game since all of those complains were rational but had no basis at the time and nonsense culture warrior gibbering respectively.
No amount of fan-service, caving to fan demands, proper continuity, sufficient amount of “wokeness” (A word I wish would disappear from discourse about this game (and from life in general)) or PR could have possibly saved this game. This game is a victim of a poor production and an even worse development. I wouldn’t be surprised if the BtS of this game was a shit show because it has all the hallmarks of a bad development cycle.
What I am trying to say is they should have made another Red Faction game! Those Martian capitalists won’t kill themselves.
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Conceptually it’s a great idea in execution it’s one of the worst if not the worst I’ve seen simply due to how you unlock its full potential. While VC brought Unique Missions strands which led to passive income. Saints Row took the activity side content, but made it a former husk of what they were in the past where it all feels the same with nothing standing out between everything. It’s simply not fuck and I’d rather play the final levels of Septic Avenger on Co-Op for Saints Row 2 (which is notoriously Hard and Unfair) then this.
I think if the game had a proper vision and the basis behind creating a gang wasn’t to not be broke and to beable to pay rent and student loans who knows what we could of expected. The whole wokeness aspect never really bothered me simply due to the fact that Saints Row 2 has a literal sex slider despite having a menu for genders. So to some degree the series has always been woke, just not to this scale. And it doesn’t particularly help that Twitter went ahead and made a fake image about women’s rights that has taken off.
When in reality it’s just me being a Cinnabon Manager in his 50’s from Omaha Nebraska taking on those pesky capitalist with my group of millennial besties, but we can’t forget the cat in the group, definitely not the cat!
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Well, we can at least follow Volition’s message. If you’re in you’re early 20s, stuck with a shitty job or worse, unemployed with almost no money to pay rent then it’s best to just go out and commit crimes 
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I remember when Saints Row was about a Sociopathic Gang Member turned Leader who literally kidnapped a Gang Leaders S.O and got them crushed in a Monster Truck Rally.
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